Built with this Rust:
rustc 1.0.0-nightly (522d09dfe 2015-02-19) (built 2015-02-20)
And this cargo:
cargo 0.0.1-pre-nightly (3f74d7e 2015-02-14) (built 2015-02-14)
To compile an executable, do:
cargo build --release
To just run it, do:
cargo run 6 # where 6 is the sequence length
To run the tests, do:
cargo test
The default method used is a simple iterative search that starts at 1. Inclded methods that are (and tested):
- A simple iterative search that starts at 1 (default)
- A recursive backtracking algorithm that searches the Collatz tree (
recursive.rs) - An iterative triangular expansion method that searches the Collatz tree (
triangular_expansion.rs)
Copyright 2015 Ryan Marcus
This file is part of reverse_collatz.
reverse_collatz is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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